“It turns out that welcome is solidarity. We’re glad you’re here, and we’re with you. This whole project called you being alive,… — Anne Lamott Joy Copy Share Image
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than… — Anne Lamott Dangerous Copy Share Image
I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he… — Anne Lamott Earth Copy Share Image
I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. — Anne Lamott Close Copy Share Image
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom. — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy. — Anne Lamott Energy Copy Share Image
“What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in… — Anne Lamott Voices in my head Copy Share Image
“All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion.” — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Arabia Copy Share Image
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in… — Anne Lamott Bleakness Copy Share Image
“And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.” — Anne Lamott Self discovery Copy Share Image
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003 — Anne Lamott April Copy Share Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think… — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with… — Anne Lamott Blood Copy Share Image
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose… — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.” — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as… — Anne Lamott Alone time Copy Share Image
I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings… — Anne Lamott Anger Copy Share Image
If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you,… — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
